Research Project Calculator The calculator customises the steps for your project according to your research task. VisuwordsLook up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
Organizing and Pre-WritingPre-Writing Exercises provides keywords, meaning, and structure to your research before your write, and may help you to overcome "writer's block."
Create Diagrams to help focus topic.Gliffy.com is a web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online.
Sweet Search is a search engine that will only point to websites that have been evaluated and approved by research experts, librarians and teachers. Rather than ranking the results by popularity, the results are ranked by credibility
GleanshoisGlean Whois provides a framework for looking at information about who has registered and owns a domain name on the Web.
Bookmarking, Content Sharing, Curation, and Aggregation: Organize and share links and other content, create collaborative resource lists, design online "magazines" using relevant web content, receive updates on topics of interest
DeliciousSave your favorites sites on Delicious so they can be accessed and shared on any computer.
Symbaloo Allows you to save and access your bookmarks anywhere.
DiigoA social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.
Scoop.it Scoop.it helps you find content from your favorite topics, and creates your own beautiful online magazines.
PinterestA content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard.
Livebinders A digital 3 ring binder to save, organize, and share webpages, PDFs, document, images, or videos. Everything is organized by tabs and subtabs.
Create Citations
NoodleToolsIntegrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.
Evernote Helps you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.
ZoteroAn easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.
MyStickies - Sticky Notes for the Web. MyStickies is like bookmarks on steroids. While bookmarks store the title of a webpage and its link, they do little to help you find what was important about the page and why exactly you chose to mark it. MyStickies solves this problem by giving you the power to mark up the page the way you like, and a tool to find notes easily and efficiently.
Organizing/Outlining
Thesis GeneratorThis interactive tool describes what a thesis is, and has students input elements to create a thesis statement.
Essay Map This interactive tool from readwritethink.org walks students through the steps of organizing their research paper.
Collaborative Research
Think Binder is a website that gives students a place to create online study groups.
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Get Started
VisuwordsLook up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
Plan Your Research
- Locating and Accessing Information**
- Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Needs
- Comparison Chart: Search Engine FeaturesUC Berkeley
- Google Search Education Resources and teaching tools for building advanced web search skills.
Comprehensive search engines:- Alta Vista
- Bing
- Google
- Hotbot
- Yahoo! Search
- Sweet Search is a search engine that will only point to websites that have been evaluated and approved by research experts, librarians and teachers. Rather than ranking the results by popularity, the results are ranked by credibility
- A Collection of Different Search Engines
Subject portals:- Librarians' Index to the Internet [Berkeley]
- WWW Virtual Library
- LibrarySpot
School Library and Public Library Catalogs:Gather Information
Web Evaluation- QUICK - Quality Information ChecklistEight ways of checking information on web sites.
- Website Evaluation Criteria from New Mexico State University Library, from their online module: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly:
- Interactive Website Evaluation Wizard an interactive, online tool for evaluating websites
- Online Website Evaluation Form
- CRAP Test for evaluating websites, and CRAP Test checklist worksheet
- GleanshoisGlean Whois provides a framework for looking at information about who has registered and owns a domain name on the Web.
Bookmarking, Content Sharing, Curation, and Aggregation:Organize and share links and other content, create collaborative resource lists, design online "magazines" using relevant web content, receive updates on topics of interest
- DeliciousSave your favorites sites on Delicious so they can be accessed and shared on any computer.
- Symbaloo Allows you to save and access your bookmarks anywhere.
- DiigoA social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.
- Scoop.it Scoop.it helps you find content from your favorite topics, and creates your own beautiful online magazines.
- Pinterest A content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard.
- Livebinders A digital 3 ring binder to save, organize, and share webpages, PDFs, document, images, or videos. Everything is organized by tabs and subtabs.
Create Citations- NoodleToolsIntegrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.
- BibMefully automatic bibliography maker
- Son of Citation MachineProvides an interactive tool to help create citations for research papers.
NotetakingOrganizing/Outlining
Collaborative Research